SINGING RAVEL
SINGING RAVEL
Maurice Ravel's choral music is rare, but includes gems such as the Trois chansons pour chœur a cappella. However, it seems to find its ideal extension in singing.
This unique program, recorded live at the Philharmonie de Paris in March 2025, offers an opportunity to experience this by introducing some of his great works transcribed for choir: from Ma mère l'oye to Shéhérazade, via La vallée des cloches. Great composers and arrangers have already given their seal of approval to Ravel's art of transcription: Gérard Pesson, Thierry Machuel, and Clytus Gottwald.
For this program, Les Métaboles also challenged Thibault Perrine to transcribe two of Ravel's most iconic works for the first time: Boléro and Pavane pour une infante défunte. These new versions for choir will undoubtedly shed new and unprecedented light on these works!
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MAURICE RAVEL - BOLÉRO (TRANSCRIPTION OF THIBAULT PERRINE)